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Dirty Jobs Season 9 Episodes
Season 9 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2022 - 2022
Episode 1
Rodbuster / Galvanizer
Sun, Jan 2, 2022
Mike works his hardest construction job yet. He helps a team of rodbusters, who carry 2 tons of reinforced steel each for overpass construction. Next Mike combats the ruination of rust by galvanizing infrastructural steel in an 850 degree zinc bath.
Episode 2
Jellyballer / Epoxy Installer
Sun, Jan 9, 2022
Mike Rowe joins a fourth-generation fisherman's crew in Georgia as they harvest cannonball Jellyfish for food, a trade known as "Jellyballing". Then Mike helps a father-son team install epoxy flooring at a restaurant in time for the dinner rush.
Episode 3
Tugboat Fitter / Water Tower Cleaner
Sun, Jan 16, 2022
Mike visits a ship-building community in Coden, Alabama to learn the ins and outs of building a tugboat, from tight spaces to complex algebra. Then he makes a long climb to the top of a dirty water tower in Magee Mississippi to clean inside the tank.
Episode 4
Rock Sucker / Mountain Carver
Sun, Jan 23, 2022
Mike sucks rocks off an industrial roof with a massive vacuum. He then travels to the Black Hills to carve the largest monument in the world: Crazy Horse. Both stories involve several generations working together to pass on their life's ambitions.
Episode 5
Escalator Maintainer / Scorpion Sweeper
Sun, Jan 30, 2022
Mike Rowe crams into a hockey arena's escalator where he scrapes and cleans a special kind of shmutz from the bottom. Then, he and a zoo keeper venture into the hot, treacherous Arizona desert at night to round up neurotoxic stinging scorpions.
Episode 6
Combat Surgeon / Iguana Hunter
Sun, Feb 6, 2022
Mike Rowe trains as a trauma surgeon using hyper-realistic scenarios and specialized equipment to learn under simulated battlefield conditions. He then controls an invasive mess of iguanas which are posing health risks to humans on the Florida coast.